Pentagon Official Seeks To Revive Particle-Beam Weapons

The Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering wants to bring particle-beam weapons back into vogue. A type of directed-energy weapon, neutral particle beam accelerators were a key component of the Reagan administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative of the late-1980s before...

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